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What I Did for Love

by Johnny Mathis · from The Essential Johnny Mathis

1975Pop2:45Track 4

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Review by DeShawn Price★★★½Sample

Not every song lands, but when it does it LANDS. “What I Did for Love” is the keeper.

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Review by Nadia Haddad★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “What I Did for Love”? Also maybe.

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Disc 1
1
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
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3:55
2
When Sunny Gets Blue (with Ray Conniff) [Single Version]
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2:41
3
It's Not for Me to Say (From the MGM Film "Lizzie")
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3:06
4
Wonderful! Wonderful! (with Ray Conniff) [Single Version]
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2:50
5
Chances Are (Single Version)
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3:02
6
No Love (But Your Love)
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2:19
7
The Twelfth of Never (Single Version)
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2:28
8
Wild Is the Wind (with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra) [From the Paramount Film "Wild Is the Wind"]
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2:26
9
Teacher, Teacher (Single Version)
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2:41
10
A Certain Smile (From the 20th Century Fox Film "A Certain Smile")
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2:48
11
Sleigh Ride (with Percy Faith)
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2:58
12
My Funny Valentine
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3:33
13
Misty
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3:37
14
Small World (Single Version)
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3:21
15
Maria
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3:47
16
Dancing On the Ceiling
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3:58
17
Stairway to the Stars
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4:54
18
Gina
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2:46
19
What Will My Mary Say
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3:09
20
The Sweetheart Tree
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2:12
21
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) [From the B'way Musical, "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)"]
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2:46
22
The Look of Love
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3:42
23
A Time for Us
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2:55
Disc 2
1
I'm Coming Home
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3:24
2
Life Is a Song Worth Singing
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6:05
3
99 Miles from L.A.
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3:43
4
What I Did for Love
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2:45
5
When a Child Is Born
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3:44
6
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (with Deniece Williams)
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3:00
7
Begin the Beguine
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4:18
8
Memory
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3:02
9
Friends In Love
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4:05
10
Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)
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4:16
11
Prelude to a Kiss
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2:54
12
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
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5:59
13
Let Your Heart Remember
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4:37
14
Un-Break My Heart
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5:00
15
Because You Loved Me
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4:36
16
Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (feat. Forever Plaid)
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2:45
17
On Broadway
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3:24